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tutd'suuy, June 1^4, ivoo/me dukuiiui i/ru^c; o OLje e for heater begins 9th season dSC play opens June 22 5^ by Robert McGlohon Battalion Staff For the premier performance its 9th season, the Memorial tudent Center Summer Dinner eater will present “Rich Is letu r,” June 22-25. “Rich Is Better” is the story of ivo American-born Italians, .ino and Nona Gognare, who inti their way through a con- using evening to get to the truth iGino’s past. Gino is rich. Yet ftei a year of marriage, his wife still thinks he’s a lowly mill work er at the company he actually owns. Gino, it seems, wanted to marry for love — not money. “It’s more like a sit-com than anything else,” Dr. Robert Wenck, director of the play, says. Starring in the show are Brenda Dolan as Nona; Peck Phillips as Gino; Susan Ander son as Pam, Gino’s executive sec retary; and Dave Polakowski as a foot doctor. Tickets for the Wednesday show are $2.50 for students and $3.50 for non-students. The performances on Thursday and Friday, which will include barbe- que dinners, are $6.50 and $7.50 a seat. Tickets to the buf fet and show on Saturday are $9.50 and $10.50 for students and non-students respectively. Curtain time for all four shows is 7:45 p.m. Dinner starts at 6:30 p.m. for the last three shows. Tickets for each performance must be purchased at least 24 hours in advance and are still available at the MSG Box Office. However, Pat Zinn, vice- president for operations for the committee advises prospective theater-goers to get their tickets soon, as the better seats are re served quickly. The MSC Summer Dinner Theater’s second and final show of the season will be “The Man With The Plastic Sandwich,” August 3-6. Show times will re main the same as with “Rich Is Better.” omestead tax exemption iscussed in City Council od 1 laving a “ki pread Hisi world he by Scott Griffin Battalion Staff A representative of the Bryan onieowners Association pre- ifled' a petition to the City louncil Monday in which the jjsociation called for a tax ex- jnption for single homes- ■iaders. ■rank Anderson, president Hhe group, said the latest He evaluations create taxes ih;ch are “discriminatory and r essive to the poor, the ly and the widowed.” ; Anderson said these people ticlld be given a 40 percent tax xemption that is allowed under tate law, and he outlined a 1 program which would call for the 40 percent exemption for the next two years, followed by a 30 percent exemption in 1985- 87, and 20 percent in 1988 and thereafter. Anderson urged the council to put the exemption to a vote witnin 90 days. He added that the present system of home evaluations is “taxation without representa tion.” Anderson said the present tax system is tyranny that’s con trolled by “a small clique which seeks to pay no local taxes.” Councilman John Mobley said he was surprised at the peo ple who signed the petition. “Do the people who signed this realize that taxes will have to be increased?” he asked. Anderson said, “We realize that the rate will have to be in creased, but it will be an across the board increase, and not just our group.” In other action, the Mayor Ron Blatchley responded to the Cable Improvement Association report by appointing a commit tee to study local cable service. Blatchley said the committee would work with both the CIA and the local cable companies in reviewing the situation. In related action, the council approved a rate increase for Midwest Video Corp. The new rates consist of a change in basic service from four to six dollars monthly. An addition to the basic pack age will be channel KHTX, which is the network of the Houston Astros and Houston Rockets. The other increase includes those channels not included in the basic service. Midwest has added stations WGN from Chi cago and WTBS of Atlanta to this package and has asked for an increase from $2.50 to $4.50 monthly. Peck Phillips, a junior theatre arts major, rehearses for the Memorial Student Center Summer Dinner staff photo by Brenda Davidson Theatre production “Rich is Better,” to be presented June 22-25. Tickets are available in the MSC box office. on evangti igures. ■ly on f /in. Trutlnj the forcesi ooksbleahl to some. > many, anged thisi] nit the con astead the: ns who art A&M are / or currenii n to joakeiil arrive despi •reclaimed rgey. aimed god eas. As Cl Don’t ig of messi - the co^ 'k inside yo ournalmi botball player helps evacuate assengers from flaming plane I United Press International CHICAGO — An NFL player (Iped evacuate fellow passen- 1 from a United Airlines jet t had a burning engine. An engine malfunction used a “blow-torch” effect and it have triggered an engine ^aboard a United Airlines jet- lr that saw people injured ile fleeing the plane, airline ials say. Tampa Bay Buc- ers tackle Dave Reavis was |sed for his heroic efforts in ing several of the 141 pas- ers on board escape. Reavis was a three-year letter- 1 on the defensive line at Arkansas, playing in the 1971 Liberty Bowl, the BlueGray Game and American Bowl in 1972. The fire erupted Saturday aboard United Airlines flight 200 as it taxied down a runway at O’Hare International Airport. The blaze forced the pilot to abort takeoff and evacuate the plane. Nineteen of the 141 passen gers suffered minor injuries in the evacuation. Nurse Judith Papen of St. Petersburg, Fla., praised Reavis for his help calming the passen gers.. She said she and Reavis were seated near an emergency exit and as the plane gained momen tum along the runway, they heard a popping noise “like a tire blowing.” According to her, he ripped open the exit door, stowed it to one side and led her and other passengers out on the wing. After he jumped, he tried to catch others who leaped to the ground, she said. O’Hare Police Sgt. William Proctor said injuries were suf fered either going down emergency chutes or jumping off a wing of the 727 jet. United spokesman Chuck Novak said the incident began as the pilot of Flight 200 started “to throttle to full thrust” down the runway. Novak said the pilot, a veteran of more than 20 years, felt a thump or bump and was immediately told by the pilot of another plane that he had an engine on fire. The injuries included broken bones, cuts and bruises as the passengers, including one in fant, were evacuated from the aircraft bound for Tampa, Fla., police said. Two passengers were hospit alized and three were treated and released from area hos pitals. judge OKs Sedco setdement K United Press International HOUSTON — An out-of- lurt settlement which included Sstimony from a Texas A&M Bfessor, and in which Sedco nc. agreed to pay $2.14 million °Gul fishermen, resort whers and others affected by a [exican oil spill in 1979 won nal 1 from a federal ;e, court records showed, iedco previously reached a lar agreement with the fed- government for $2 million, ging to $4.14 million the •unt Sedco has agreed to pay laims stemming from the iuie 3, 1979 blowout of the Ix- .i LU -", j o j] we jj Mexico’s Bay of on the car 1 |L peche Iriving a'ff lU.S. District Judge Robert for repaint r onor Thursday dismissed 'OU to print ass-action lawsuits filed against ; owner wil |e Dallas-based drilling firm as .zing cart)| ft of an out-of-court agree- i large, dad fit in which Sedco agreed to y new. ler, IX :art peals victii ie 8 at 11: ;d over in it* irking lot,1 $2.14 million to commercial fisherman, boat owners, proper ty owners, hotels, motels, tourist developers and others hurt by the spill. It was the world’s worst oil spill, leaking 3.1 million barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico over a nine-month period. Oil blackened beaches in Texas and Mexico, smothered fertile fishing and shrimping grounds and caused other environmental damage. Sedco denied respon- siblity for the blowout but own ed the rig that drilled the well. The rig was leased to Permargo, a Mexican drilling firm, which had an exploration contract with Pemex, the Mexican national oil company. “We’re glad to have com pleted the settlement with the class action plaintiffs and our next targets are Permargo and Pemex,” said Sedco attorney Theo Dimitry on Friday. Attorney Richard Mithoff, who represents commercial fishermen and boat owners in the case, said O’Conor tentative ly split the funds among three classes of plaintiffs. Commercial fishermen, crab bers, shrimpers and boat owners represented by Mithoff were scheduled to receive $1.5 mil lion and $500,000 in attorneys fees. Another group consisting of developers, hotel, motels, and businesses along south Padre Is land or near Laguna Madre in Cameron and Willacy counties were tentatively scheduled to re ceive $600,000 in damages and $200,000 in attorneys fees. The rest of the settlement, ab out $40,000 was allocated for a third plaint group consisting of condominium and home owners along South Padre Island. Mithoff said the settlement was much lower than expected because damages where short lived. Dr. Roy W. Hann Jr., a pro fessor of environmental en gineering at Texas A&M Uni versity, testified Thursday dam ages from the spill were limited to the 1979 season. “That was the reason the claims were not nearly as high. Based on original estimates, had there been permanent damage to larvae and the shrimp beds, damages could have reached into $100 million,” Mithoff said. Swensen’s Introduces Chocolate Sundaes Berand Ifcur Wildest Dreams. The All New Chocolate l&stfasv Sundaes. 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